Solo Exhibition - In Parallel: sculpture and drawing

The body of work that constituted the core of the exhibitions was made between January 2006 and April 2007. The concept of the repair or the mend is central and is further developed through the use of recycled clay and the use of elements of earlier sculptures reconstructed within this work. It draws on two strands of enquiry: 1) The reinterpretation of the detail of sail repairs in Gerritt Pompe’s ‘Shipping off a Dutch Harbour’, discussed in Dr Geoff Quilley’s essay in ‘In Parallel: Sculpture and Drawing’; 2) The repair of bed linen found in a house in Umbria, referred to in Mel Gooding’s ‘texts’ in the catalogue of the extended ‘In Parallel’ exhibition at the gallery at Wimbledon College of Art. During the exhibition in Amsterdam an Agendas/KUNST10DAAGSE event took place in the gallery, debating the work and the research questions addressed; the sound-recording was accessioned by the British Library. This aspect was further developed in the Wimbledon show through a ‘listening post’ installation presenting the sound recordings of the Amsterdam event and the interview with William Furlong, ‘Audioarts’, which forms a central text in the publication that accompanied these exhibitions. These recordings sit alongside the recently completed Artists Lives recording with Bugg (July 2007), part of the Life Stories collection at the British Library. The later showing of this work at the gallery at WCA provided a broader context across the period of the 25-year partnership of the artist with the Amsterdam gallery and provided the opportunity to exhibit three new works, one developing an earlier theme of the tactile mark evolved from the greater emphasis on drawing within this exhibition and the other two providing the culmination of the research based on reworking and recycling.